Informed consent has now become common in medical practice. However, a gap still exists between doctors and patients in the understanding of clinical conditions. We designed medical comics about… (More)

Munchausen syndrome is a factitious disorder. Patients sometimes inflict injury on themselves in order to assume a sick role. The authors report a patient with Munchausen syndrome suffered from brain… (More)

The lateral positioning used for the lateral suboccipital surgical approach is associated with various pathophysiologic complications. Strategies to avoid complications including an excessive load on… (More)

A 34-year-old man with a 1-week history of diplopia was referred to the authors' hospital. Neurological examination revealed left abducens nerve palsy. Computed tomography showed a lesion in the left… (More)

Cavernous angiomas of the bone are rare tumors. Skull cavernomas are even less frequent. Most cavernous angiomas of the bone are congenital tumors. In a review of the literature, we found only one… (More)

BACKGROUND
Isolated adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) deficiency is a pituitary disorder characterized by reduction only in the secretion of ACTH. Although the underlying mechanism remains to be… (More)

Orbital schwannoma accounts for 1-6% of all orbital tumors and it is not easy to identify the origin of the tumor because of the anatomy of the orbit. A case of orbital schwannoma developing from the… (More)